More than 20 countries are convening in Bogota next week to declare “concrete measures against Israel’s violations of international law”, Middle East Eye reports.

The “emergency summit” is due to be held on 15-16 July, co-hosted by the governments of Colombia and South Africa as co-chairs of The Hague Group, to coordinate diplomatic and legal action to counter what they describe as “a climate of impunity” enabled by Israel and its powerful allies.

“Together, we will work to introduce concrete legal, diplomatic and economic measures that can urgently halt Israel’s destruction of the Palestinians,” Roland Lamola, South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, told Middle East Eye.

“The Palestinian genocide threatens our entire multilateral system,” said Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, Colombia’s vice-minister of multilateral affairs.